Hong Kong Film Awards Articles

As Hong Kong celebrates 100 years of filmmaking, Wilson Yip’s biopic Ip Man (above, top image), starring Donnie Yen as Bruce Lee’s kung fu master, was chosen best picture of the year at the 2009 Hong Kong Film Awards. However, the small-scale docudrama The Way We Are (above, bottom image), set in the working-class town of Tin Shui Wai near the border with China, took [...]

2009 Hong Kong Film Awards 2009 Hong Kong Film Award nominations: Feb. 12 2009 Hong Kong Film Award winners: Apr. 19 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Donnie Yen in Wilson Yip’s Ip Man, a biopic of Bruce Lee’s kung fu master.   Best Film The Way We Are (prods: Ann Hui & Wong Yat Ping) Red Cliff (prods: Terence Chang & John [...]

2008 Hong Kong Film Awards 2008 Hong Kong Film Award nominations: February 4, 2008 2008 Hong Kong Film Award winners: Hong Kong Cultural Centre, April 13, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   The Warlords stars Jet Li as a general battling in a lengthy 19th-century Chinese civil war that left millions dead.   Best Film * The Warlords (Prods: Andre Morgan, Huang [...]

2006 Hong Kong Film Awards 2006 Hong Kong Film Award nominations: February 9, 2006 2006 Hong Kong Film Award winners: April 8, 2006 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   A leadership dispute between mobsters Big D (Tony Leung) and Lok (Sam Yang) threatens to destroy the internal unity of Hong Kong’s underworld, which results in some nasty politicking and even nastier gang warfare. [...]